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Life and Health Employee Benefits – Q3 2020
Welcome to the fourth quarterly edition of Life and Health in Asia, jointly brought to you by TDI and Gen Re. In this edition we have four articles: Our in-depth explores how ...
Life and Health O2O Services – Q2 2020
Welcome to the third quarterly edition of Life and Health in Asia, jointly brought to you by TDI and Gen Re. In this edition we have four articles: We lead with an in-depth look at...
O2O services within life and health insurance
Insurers are increasingly pointing to successful O2O services in Asia as a product they aspire to recreate. For many, the region offers a roadmap for innovation as the ubiquity of ...
The rise of digital ecosystems in Asia
This article explores what makes a good ecosystem, where the ecosystem opportunities lie, and how insurers can participate in the rise of ecosystems. It also includes a comparative...
中国深度：数据分析和人工智能对中国保险的影响
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中国深度：自然巨灾预防
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China In-Depth: Natural Catastrophe Prevention
要用中文查看此内容，请单击此处 Global insured losses from natural catastrophes in 2018 were $76 billion, the fourth highest on record. Additionally, Asia suffers ...
China In-Depth: Ecosystems with life/health
Although Ping An and Zhong An are widely recognised for their ability to establish end-to-end operations and move upstream to secure new distribution channels, these efforts have ...
Digital ecosystems: extending the boundaries of value creation in life and health insurance
中英文版都有 Technological advances have the potential to radically change the way life insurers interact with consumers and also help them better assess and price risks. The...
Finalist of The Digital Insurer’s European Start Up InsurTech Award 2017 – CBien
Thank you, CBien! On 19th September 2017 the final presentations for The Digital Insurer Startup InsurTech Awards were held. In this unique format four finalists presented online ...
Erste Digital’s quest to be the Paypal of Annex Insurance
When you work with start-ups, as I do, it can be truly inspiring to see the determination, ingenuity and adaptability that defines them. And when you’ve spent 35 years in the ...
Barbarians knocking on the digital gates of the insurance industry? – two interesting corporate transactions
Are we starting to see the entry of non financial services players into insurance with new digitally based insurance models? I picked up on two pieces of corporate news last month ...
Asia 2017 Session Review – Digital Insurance Around The World
The Digital Insurer Asia Annual Conference 2017, held in Singapore in November, was a one-day flagship digital insurance innovation event that brought our community in Asia ...
Asia 2017 Session Review – Digital Distribution
The Digital Insurer Asia Annual Conference 2017, held in Singapore in November, was a one-day flagship digital insurance innovation event that brought our community in Asia ...
AIA Singapore introduces AIA Vitality
Accenture Technology Vision for Insurance 2015
Article Synopsis : Carriers that embrace the new collaborative economy have an opportunity to enable and monetize disruption, placing them on a path to higher growth. The leaders...
Alipay free health insurance
In a bid to increase its market share in China’s burgeoning personal insurance industry, Alipay has launched a reward points based free health insurance service in collaborat...
Allianz BCG launch an app for expectant Chinese mothers
Allianz declares strategic partnership with American telehealth platform
A Boston-based telehealth platform called American Well has received US$59.2m investment from Allianz X, the digital investment unit of Allianz. The partnersh...
Aviva – New Alexa skill
Aviva has become the first UK insurer to launch an Alexa Skill on Amazon’s Echo. Specifically, the Aviva assistant gives users voice-controlled access to a glossary of over 3...
AXA, Alibaba and Ant Financial – New ecosystem
AXA, Alibaba and Ant Financial Services have agreed a global partnership to jointly explore opportunities to distribute AXA’s products via Alibaba’s global ecommerce ecosyste...
AXA’s Health Keeper Platform
Competing in a world of sectors without borders
Article Synopsis : Customers are increasingly demanding products they understand that fit their own specific needs. In order to achieve this, insurers are launching many more ...
Asia rising – the hothouse for insurance innovation? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018
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Young Yang from ZhongAn speaks @ Asia rising – the hothouse for insurance innovation? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018
Watch Young Yang from ZhongAn speak @ Asia rising – the hothouse for insurance innovation? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018 about how ZhongAn is offering solutions for ...
Frank DesVignes from AXA Labs speaks @ Asia rising – the hothouse for insurance innovation? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018
Watch Frank DesVignes from AXA Labs speak @ Asia rising – the hothouse for insurance innovation? panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018 about a unique global innovation ...
Connected cars – Otonomo delivering telematics data to insurers
Founded in 2015 in Israel, Otonomo is a cloud-based data exchange platform that effectively enables car manufacturers, drivers and service providers to be a p...
Simon Phipps from The Digital Insurer speaks @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018
Watch Simon Phipps from The Digital Insurer speaks @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018 about PingAn as Global challenger based on ...
Andrew Dart from The Digital Insurer speaks @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018
Watch Andrew Dart from The Digital Insurer speaks @ Digital Insurance around the world panel session – Global LIVEFEST 2018 about Cover Genius as Global challenger providing ...
CVS buys Aetna in deal that could transform healthcare
CVS Health Corp, a major drugstore across the US is merging with Aetna for a total US$69bn in a bid to marry low-cost medical services in pharmacies with an e...
Discovery Health Vitality Wellness Program
Platforms & Eco-systems – The Future of Insurance in Asia? panel session @ Asia & ANZ LIVEFEST 2018
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Steve Monaghan from Gen.Life Limited speak @ Platforms & Eco-systems – The Future of Insurance in Asia? panel session – Asia &...
Watch Steve Monaghan from Gen.Life Limited speak @ Platforms & Eco-systems – The Future of Insurance in Asia? panel session – Asia & ANZ LIVEFEST 2018 about what ...
The Digital Insurer Webinar: Digital Insurance Distribution – Ecosystem Products
Webinar Statistics Click here for all the Webinar Statistics Event Materials View the slides here Webinar ID: 836-948-686 Join us for this webinar and listen to an experienced, ...
Deloitte: Insurance of the future – what will it look like in 2025?
Article Synopsis : Belgium has a mature insurance market and as a result, organic growth will be limited in core products. Insurers are aware that digitalisation will have a ...
Digital to the Core: Transforming Financial Services and Insurance in the New World of Digital Business Platforms and Ecosystems
Article Synopsis : Financial services and insurance entities must get their act together if they are to benefit from the powerful transformation that digitalisation offers. And ...
Humana’s Cue App helps develop long lasting habits and promote better health
Instony – Chinese Insurance APP
Instony is a Chinese insurance app that is focusing on ancillary services in order to cross-sell insurance.
Launched in 2011, Instony distributes a free wi-fi dongle f...
John Hancock – Ecosystem play with Discovery Vitality
John Hancock is the first US life insurance company to offer an integrated health/wellness programme bundled with life insurance component. The wellness program, offered in c...
John Hancock redefines Life Insurance with Vitality program
LifeSmart – Connected home applications for China
LifeSmart is a Hanzhou based smart home appliance manufacturer that is using advanced sensors to hasten the onset of the ‘connected home’, where everyday household appliances...
Manulife Unveils Innovative ManulifeMOVE Program
IBM: Insurance on the platform
Executive summary The insurance industry has never been famous for rapidly embracing change. As recently as last decade, a researcher proposing simplification of U.S. insurance ...
Microsoft Healthcare NExT – Fusing research, AI and industry expertise to transform Healthcare
Healthcare NExT is a new initiative from Microsoft aimed at transforming the healthcare sector by leveraging its existing AI work and Azure cloud resources. Specifically, by ...
Oscar Health – The Health Insurance Startup That Wants To Revolutionise Healthcare
Paytm – Insurance cover for the e-wallet
Alibaba-backed digital payments and e-commerce platform Paytm has recently launched a new e-wallet insurance product to cover users of the Paytm Wallet in the event of theft...
Insurance beyond digital: The rise of ecosystems and platforms
Article Synopsis : Insurance companies, asserts this monograph from McKinsey, have the opportunity to create new sources of revenue by rethinking their traditional roles and ...
Potent disruptor Tesla is set to rattle the insurance industry
Elon Musk’s Tesla has begun bundling usage-based insurance with its electric vehicles in Asia. Although long expected, Tesla’s entrance into insurance has sen...
Library: How and why insurers should increase investment in Embedded Insurance 2.0
September 2022 featured report: Embedded insurance (EI) was a theme of a recent China in Focus on The Digital Insurer, so it seemed highly appropriate for us to cover a report ...
Riskeys
Riskeys is a Shanghai based aggregator that is targeting the health and life segment with a new approach to customer acquisition. Specifically, the intensity of competition i...
Sanagate’s SanaHealth app
Swiss health insurer Sanagate AG and Dacadoo, a digital healthcare startup, have launched an app called SanaHealth. Although there are several similar health apps already ava...
Simplesurance – Simple access to insurance
Founded in Germany in 2012, Simplesurance offers a unique platform with transparent and efficient insurance services to connect people and business, anywhere and anytime. It ...
Tencent strengthens its positioning within insurance
Since the Zhong An IPO, Tencent has been diluting its position in Zhong An and adding additional positions within insurance to further bolster its ability to capitalise on th...
The CVS/Aetna Merger Will Transform Healthcare Technology
Although CVS Health and Aetna’s US$69bn merger deal is expected to transform the nation’s health care industry, the two companies are currently focusing on a mob...
The Warranty Group launches TrustCircle in Singapore
The Warranty Group, a global provider of warranty solutions (extending w...
VitalityLife – Changing Life Insurance For Good
Library: Coforge – Future Ready: Multi-Channel Distribution in Life Insurance
Executive summary : How can you differentiate your insurance business and stay ahead of the curve? The answer lies not just in developing excellent products and services, but in ...
Zeeno – Digital Wellness Platform for corporates and insurers
Zeeno started out with the idea to use pattern recognition as a means to improve the impact of wellness programs delivered by corporates and insurers for thei...
Zenefits – HR platform with benefits
Revamped Zenefits is currently putting its regulatory woes behind it and offering an all-in-one digital, cloud-based HR platform for small and medium businesses, with a parti...
Library: Global IQX – Enabling Ecosystems: Golden Rules of Digital Transformation
Executive summary : Today, insurance systems need to talk to each other. They must store, share, retrieve and use the same data. Data should flow unimpeded from the first ...
Library: PropertyCasualty360º – Digital services could displace $280B of traditional premiums by 2025
Executive summary : Demand for digital insurance tools and online distribution is anticipated to displace as much as $280 billion of current insurance revenue by 2025, according to...
Library: Times of India – How innovation in embedded insurance is redefining the future of insurance industry
Executive summary: The extensive adoption of technology by consumers during the pandemic have led companies to shift their business online. Insurers are integrating technology with...
McKinsey: Digital health ecosystems – a payer perspective
Article Synopsis : This McKinsey report takes an interesting angle about those who pay for healthcare. It says a digital health ecosystem can allow them to take advantage of ...
McKinsey: Ecosystems and platforms: How insurers can turn vision into reality
Executive summary It is no longer news that digital technologies are reshaping customer expectations and redefining industry boundaries. Apple now offers a credit card; Uber ...
Relevance of Mutual and Cooperative Lessons learned from developed Europe and Asia
Article Synopsis : Much of the talk concerning insurtech focuses on the growth of adoption in personal lines and the need for commercial insurers to act now or regret later. ...
The Role of Ecosystems in Insurance – Boston Consulting
Article Synopsis : The emergence of ‘ecosystems’ could threaten insurers all along the value chain. A digital ecosystem is a network of companies, individuals, institutions...
Welcome to the Rapid Connection Age
A breakthrough guide for insurers who want to quickly leverage the modern insurance ecosystem to achieve faster growth and better serve their agents and policyholders. The insur...
Duck Creek to acquire Imburse Payments
Imburse is a Swiss-based modern payments platform.
Future-proofing insurance by harnessing the power of cros...
To create differentiated offerings and address ever changing customer needs, insurance companies – including firms across both L&A and P&C – are leveraging and creating ecosyste...
Adyen Launches Embedded Financial Products to Overhaul &#...
6 hours ago ... Adyen Launches Embedded Financial Products to Overhaul Traditional SME Financing. Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of choice for ...
Lockton establishes new insurance facility
Move "represents a step forward" for coverage, it states
“Environmentally conscious” Munich Re shares decarbonisat...
Move incorporates investments, operations, and insurance transactions
Lemonade partners with Aviva amid UK launch
US-based insurtech Lemonade has launched in the UK, entering a long-term, strategic partnership with Aviva. Lemonade states that residents across the UK
Aaliance partners with Alibaba, Tencent to enter health i...
Aaliance Insurance has joined forces with Alibaba and Tencent to expand into the city-wide health insurance market.
Pledg partners with Allianz Trade
Pledg and Allianz Trade have co-created an Buy Now Pay Later solution for B2B e-commerce sites.
bolttech: connecting insurers, distributors and customers
InsTech's Henry Gale speaks to Andrew Cons, CEO Europe at bolttech, to discuss bolttech’s business model, how the company became a unicorn and trends in embedded insurance.Henry...
League named in 2022 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Healthcare ...
League's digital health platform is identified as an emerging technology that enables a Digital Front Door by Gartner® in their Hype Cycle™.
Choosing the right partner
Oliver Cuenca talks to experts in travel insurance, assistance and insurtech to find out what they look for in new business partners
Flipkart to acquire online travel firm Cleartrip – TechCr...
Flipkart said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire online travel and hotel ticketing firm Cleartrip as the Walmart-owned e-commerce firm looks to expand its offerings in the wor...
Prudential partners with Mercado Libre
Mercado Libre is the largest e-commerce ecosystem in Latin America.
Fermion acquires stake in Singaporean insurtech Ancileo
Digital engagement solutions provider Fermion has acquired an undisclosed stake in Singapore-based insurtech company Ancileo.
Plug-N-Play Insurance Success Rides on Sound Partner Stra...
In insurance, superior digital customer experience comes from offering services exactly at the time and place the customer needs them most. To appear at the right moment for the...
AXA launches strategic program to build Digital Commercia...
Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) has announced the digitalisation of its International Programs business...
Why an API architecture accelerates digital transformation
Creating an open API architecture gives mid-size agencies the modern, digital-first tools to compete with larger insurance players.
TrueCar acquires Digital Motors
Presidio Technology Partners served as financial advisor to Digital Motors.
Insurtech Carrot partners with Naver
Korea's full-stack digital insurer now partners with Naver, an e-commerce shopping platform to distribute shipping return insurance.
Orchestrating innovation
The convergence of cloud, open APIs, and digital has opened the door to the next wave of innovation in P&C insurance. This blog focuses on how the orchestration of customer and ...
Fulcrum Digital and Amodo enter a strategic partnership
Fulcrum Digital and Amodo enter a strategic partnership to offer a next-generation connected insurance platform.
Why Amazon should pay attention to Shein – TechCrunch
While Amazon's marketplace has proved a boon for businesses trying to get off the ground, many successful companies are now looking beyond the fences, spurred by a desire to com...
Singapore-based insurtech firm Surer releases new and imp...
Foxquilt launches insurance product for small business ow...
10 hours ago ... Foxquilt has launched a new e-commerce insurance product in Canada to help business owners secure tailored coverage.
Munich Re Life US enters into a definitive agreement to a...
20 hours ago ... ... to – and use of – electronic health records for life insurance underwriting ... Clareto's access to EHRs will enhance Munich Re's digital underwriting ...
Munich Re Life US to acquire Clareto
Clareto is a medical record retrieval company.
OneDegree announces multi-year partnership with Munich Re
OneInfinity is an insurance and technology product offering designed for digital asset trading platforms, custodians, asset managers and technology providers.
GOQii to launch Health Metaverse, announces $10 mn invest...
7 hours ago ... GOQii's offerings include fitness tracker, app, coaching, healthstore, insurance and many others. Animoca Brands is a global leader in gamification and ...
GOQii all set to launch Health Metaverse, announces inves...
6 hours ago ... Animoca Brands is a global leader in gamification and blockchain with an ... and discounted health-focused goods, medical services and insurance products.
[Funding alert] GOQii raises $10M in extended Series C eq...
5 hours ago ... ... health-focused goods, medical services, and insurance products. ... GOQii has built a platform that leverages the power of gamification to make the ...
SGX-listed Tech Firm Silverlake Axis Launches Insurance E...
Fermion identifies and creates ways for businesses to integrate insurance ecosystems into customer journeys.
Boost and BizDynamics, a cloud business unit of ValueMome...
BizDynamics, a cloud business unit of ValueMomentum, announced its partnership with Boost, an insurance infrastructure-as-a-service platform that enables businesses to offer whi...
AmTrust to back Mulberry Shield plans
AmTrust will insure Mulberry Shield plans.
Extend Named BigCommerce Elite Technology Partner
Extend offers customized, consumer-friendly product protection plans to help fast-growing BigCommerce merchants enhance the post-purchase experience.
Accenture and League collaborate to transform digital hea...
We look forward to working in tandem with the Accenture team to reinvent digital experiences offered by the provider, payer and consumer health segments.
Alan launches B2B offering
Alan is launching Alan as a service.
Saudi Arabian insurer Walaa taps eBaoTech for digital tra...
Walaa Cooperative Insurance Company (Walaa) has selected eBaoTech’s digital insurance solution to enhance its capabilities.
MoneyLion to acquire Even Financial
Even Financial is backed by MassMutual.
Build your open insurance ecosystem
An open insurance ecosystem can help you connect with partners to build valuable relationships with your customers. Read this content to learn about some key considerations for ...
The Great Unbundling
GE's announcement that it is splitting into three parts underscores a theme we've been sounding at ITL for years now: that the future belongs to ecosystems.
Insured Nomads adopts the CoverGo platform to streamline ...
Remote and Globally Distributed, November 10, 2021--Insured Nomads, a US-based leader in travel and global health insurance, and CoverGo, leader in
NTUC Income offers insurance-as-a-service
The insurer has picked up three partners.
Wellness platform Paceline launches a credit card
The Paceline Card, issued by Evolve Bank & Trust, is a credit card that links financial benefit to physical health.
Swiss Re to invest in Paytm’s insurance business
Swiss Re is taking a $23 stake in the company.
Next Insurance announces Next Connect
Next Connect is an embedded insurance solution for small business software ecosystems.
Why Surer pins the insurance industry’s future in tech
Verisk backs HUG HUB
The investment is part of a collaboration deal with Verisk, that will enable HUG HUB to expand and enhance its platform.
XN Worldwide Insurance adopts the CoverGo platform to str...
Guardian Life is working on a new digital platform
Guardian is working digital platform for small business owners to purchase employer-sponsored benefits online.
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